See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
Between Monday night and late Tuesday, various media outlets made the bizarre comparison between Melania Trump’s CNN interview defending husband Donald Trump against allegations of sexual assault to the infamous sit down then-First Lady Hillary Clinton gave to NBC’s Today in 1998 where she denounced accusations against President Bill Clinton as part of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
After a number of references on ABC, CNN, and MSNBC, the Tuesday edition of MSNBC’s Hardball dedicated portions of a segment to actually airing clips of the two interviews side-by-side with host Chris Matthews expressing his approval with the link.